Tag: corruption
Miller: CIFA’s books need open audit
(CNS): The independent MLA for North Side has called on the sports minister to audit the books of the local football association to ensure the more than $127,000 that goes to the Cayman Islands football Association from the public purse is being used properly. However, Minister Osbourne Bodden responded that CIFA does provide financial returns for the […]
Unidentified FIFA official seeks bail in Zürich
(CNS): One of the seven men being held by Swiss authorities awaiting extradition to the United States as part of the $150 million FIFA bribery and corruption probe has made a formal appeal against the extradition and wants bail. The Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) in Switzerland issued a release Wednesday stating that one of […]
Sports exec accused of paying Webb bribes gives himself up
(CNS): The president of an Argentine sports marketing company, which allegedly paid massive bribes to FIFA officials, including Jeffrey Webb, for rights relating to the Copa America tournaments, has handed himself into to the Italian police, according to international media reports. Alejandro Burzaco, who was indicted in the US probe, was expected to appear in […]
FIFA fallout stops U15 Cayman tournament
(CNS): The CONCACAF Under-15 Boys’ 2015 Championship, which was scheduled to be held in the Cayman Islands and Jamaica in August, has been cancelled. In a release from the regional football body, the Executive Committee said it had decided to postpone the development competition until further notice but made no mention of the bribery scandal […]
CIMA boss isolated from FIFA-related probe
(CNS): Updated: Government officials have clarified that the local regulator has set up an internal unit that will report to the non-executive board, and not the CIMA managing director, to investigate the allegations made about a local bank and other offshore entities registered here in the ongoing FIFA corruption scandal. But despite family connections, CIMA MD Cindy […]
FBI hopes FIFA officials will give up Blatter
(CNS): The president of the international football body, FIFA, is reportedly in the sights of the FBI as they continue their investigation into a $150 million bribery probe at the top of the sport. The US media has reported that law enforcement agencies are hoping football officials already arrested and indicted will help nail Sepp […]
Getting past denial, dealing with CIFA
101 writes: From a global perspective, Jeff Webb is easily the most famous Caymanian in this country’s modern history. He rose to the pinnacle of one of the world’s most influential bodies. His position and global reach was to serve as a catalyst for further enhancement of Cayman’s football, and possibly an improvement in our efforts […]
Blatter to quit as FIFA president
(CNS): Sepp Blatter, the president of the world football governing body, has announced that he will resign, just days after he was re-elected by football executives from around the world. Amid the bribery and corruption scandal that has sucked in dozens of football bosses, including CONCACAF president, Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb, the 79-year-old Swiss national has […]
Webb remains in Swiss jail, bail unlikely
(CNS): The Swiss authorities have confirmed that Jeffrey Webb and his co-defendants held in Zürich are unlikely to get bail, though some of the older members of the group arrested this week have requested their release on health grounds. The law enforcement officials have also stated that the men will not receive any special treatment […]
CONCACAF sacks Webb in face of scandal
(CNS): The region’s football body has dismissed Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb from the CONCACAF top job and put Senior Vice President Alfredo Hawit in his place in the wake of yesterday’s shocking news of the arrest of Webb and several other football officials and marketing executives in relation to corruption charges. Eduardo Li, an executive member of CONCACAF […]
Webb’s $1m Atlanta home revealed
(CNS): As the international media continues its round-the-clock coverage of the shocking FIFA scandal that has seen Cayman’s own football boss at the very heart of the corruption allegations, the British media has arrived in the Cayman Islands and the press has published a picture of one of Jeffery Webb’s palatial properties. According to the […]
